Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Sheldon M. Novick

   Pages 1-23

3. James Amongst the Aesthetes

   • Richard Ellmann

   Pages 25-44

4. Henry James’s Permanent Adolescence

   • John R. Bradley

   Pages 45-68

5. The Art of Friendship in Roderick Hudson

   • Gregory Woods

   Pages 69-77

6. An Exchange of Gifts in The American

   • Chery B. Torsney

   Pages 79-85

7. Failed Heterosexuality in The Portrait of a Lady

   • Robert K. Martin

   Pages 87-92

8. A World of Female Friendship: The Bostonians

   • David Van Leer

   Pages 93-109

9. Homo-Erotic Desire in the Tales of Writers and Artists

   • Leland S. Person

   Pages 111-123

10. Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James’s Letters to Younger Men

    • Susan E. Gunter, Steven H. Jobe

    Pages 125-135

11. Renunciations in James’s Late Novels

    • Nicolas Buchele

    Pages 137-149

12. Back Matter

    Pages 151-153

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Sheldon M. Novick has written an extensive biographical introduction. This is complimented by an essay documenting James's friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished letters. Other subjects include the influence on James of the emergence of a specific concept of 'the homosexual' and James's reactions to the aesthetic movement; and there are close analyses of many of James's stories and novels, selected so that all of his career is represented.

• America
• concept
• eros
• essay
• Henry James
• knowledge
• novel
• subject
• William James

"... the cumulative effect of the essays is greater knowledge and therefore greater understanding." - Choice

"... the essays collected in this volume reveal a rich dimension to James's life and work that has too long been ignored." - Boston Book Review

• Exeter University, Oxford, UK

  John R. Bradley

NICOLAS BUCHELE teaches English in Bangkok, and published essays and reviews on Vladamir Nabokov, Lawrence Durrell and Thomas Mann RICHARD ELLMANN one of the century's greatest biographers, published lives of Joyce, Wilde and Yeats SUSAN E. GUNTER Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City STEVEN H. JOBE Associate Professor of English at Hanover College, Indiana DAVID VAN LEER Professor of English at the University of California ROBERT K. MARTIN teaches American literature, poetry and gay studies at Concordia University, Montreal SHELDON MI. NOVICK Scholar in Residence at the Vermont Law School LELANDS S. PERSON. JR Professor of English and Chair of the Department at The University of Alabama at Birmingham CHERYL B. TORSNEY Lecturer in English at West Virginia University GREGORY WOODS Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University

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